Dowry suicide accused let off

NEW DELHI: A man accused of harassing his wife for dowry and driving her to commit suicide has been acquitted by a trial court which said she took the drastic step out of depression as her baby was diagnosed with thalassaemia.

Additional sessions judge Rakesh Kumar acquitted Udipta Shankar Dass who submitted his wife Mumita had been depressed her mother had died of thalassaemia major the gene of which she passed on to her month-old son. tnn